Operations budget for the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development. Committee members asked about the high number of personnel vacancies within the department and hiring from a diverse pool of candidates. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee will come to order. We meet today to discuss the state department and u. S. I. D. Fy 2020 operations budget. Without objection, all members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extraneous materials for the record, subject to the length limitations in the rules. Ill now make my opening statement, and then turn it over to the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Ive noticed that the republicans are a little bit faster getting over here after votes. I want to thank the Ranking Member mr. Zeldin members of the subcommittee and our witnesses for joining us for todays hearing for the fiscal year 2020 operations budget, also want to thank the witnesses for being accommodating knowing that our vo
Think . This is interesting because the economy has been pretty stellar since the president has been in office. This isnt anything new. I think that, like you said, it is, the poll numbers are now catching up to this but it is interesting to be watching, still very early ahead of 2020 which is a lot of people are looking to these poll numbers for a lot of people close to the president s Reelection Campaign and those working to get him reelected tell me that the economy is the big key here. Theyre worried if anything changes in the economy, that could be a key thing, a key factor ahead of the election. Neil for now, it does, still have him on defense, Strong Economy or not, when it comes to oneonone matches. You point out to me, quite right saying, so, very early in the process. Early on is he not benefiting as much as you would think an incumbent president presiding over this type of recovery would be looking at. Its a trend i would imagine that he would like . Definitely. I think some
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